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From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: Revert "gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crash", (was: Re:
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:02:02PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> If the box hung within 15 minutes, the kernel was deemed bad. Using 
> that method i arrived to this upstream networking fix which was 
> merged yesterday:
> 
>  | 303c6a0251852ecbdc5c15e466dcaff5971f7517 is first bad commit
>  | commit 303c6a0251852ecbdc5c15e466dcaff5971f7517
>  | Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
>  | Date:   Tue Mar 17 13:11:29 2009 -0700
>  |
>  |     gro: Fix legacy path napi_complete crash

This commit breaks nfsroot booting on i.MX27 and other ARM boxes with
different network cards here in a reproducable way.

rsc
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